Christine Hunner-Kreisel – författare

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings. The volume explores the strengths and challenges of theoretical and methodological approaches to intersectionality, addressing its spatial, temporal and comparative dimensions. It, therefore, adopts a critical and process-focused approach while recognising the agency of individuals as subjects of state policies. The contributions critically build the link between intersectionality and other theoretical frameworks and research paradigms, including Marxist social reproduction theory, critical race studies, Bourdieuan analysis of class, critical geography, childhood, queer, migration, and disability studies. The contributions provide insights into the institutional realms of health, education, social services, and care work and examine state practices of racial profiling and policing in distinct welfare states. Overall, the contributions illustrate the strengths of the intersectionality framework in empirical inquiries while providing critical reflections on its limitations. Readers across a diverse array of social science disciplines will find this book valuable.

This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions of social inequality in the context of growing up.

Migration as a phenomenon is most often motivated by the search for a better life. Very often children and young people, migrating alone or together with their families, migrate to ameliorate their own or others’ living conditions and seize opportunities for realizing a good life. Today as well as in the past this search for a better life is very often triggered by socio-economic reasons, war or terrorism.

Against the backdrop of the topic raised above the book deals with children and young people’s own perspective in countries of migration. It promotes the idea of connecting global and local issues of childhood and youth with a special focus on questions of education. It studies questions of global and local living and highlights living circumstances shaped by patterns of migration and mobility.

In diesem neuen Band der Reihe ''Kinder, Kindheit, Kindheitsforschung'' werden gegenwartsbezogene und historische Fallstudien zu Kindern, Kindheit und Familie in Zentralasien, Osteuropa, dem Kaukasus sowie Russland und der Türkei vorgestellt. Die empirischen und theoretisch-analytischen Beiträge nehmen die Bedeutung von (Trans-)Migration und sozialem Wandel für Kinderleben, familiären Alltag und die Konzeption von Kindheit und Familie in diesen Regionen in den Blick. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie sich Prozesse von Migration und sozialem Wandel auf kindliche und familiäre Lebenswelten auswirken, und zu unterschiedlichen Konstruktionen von Kindheit und Familie führen. Dabei werden (post-) sowjetische und transnationale Alltagsrealitäten nachgezeichnet, geschlechterspezifische Zugänge vorgenommen und Themen wie  soziale Ungleichheit und Wohlbefinden diskutiert. Der Band führt erstmals Befunde zur Kindheits- und Familienforschung aus diesen bisher in der akademischen Debatte wenig beachteten Regionen und Ländern zusammen.